 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...Herbert, C. will probably be wanting : only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expression*, and something of a neat cast of verse (which are properly...diversion only. These authors should be considered as versifiers and witty men, rather than as poets: and under this head only will fall the thoughts, the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 802 pages
...Lives, Art. Herbert. C. trill probably be wanting : only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse...found in these verses. This is indeed the case of mo«t other poetical writers of miscellanies: nor can it well be otherwise, since no man can be a true... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 362 pages
...(which is the body, will probably be wanting ; only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse,...diversion only. These authors should be considered as versifiers and witty men, rather than as poets ; and under this head will only fall the thoughts, the... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pages
...(which is the body), will prohably be wanting: only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse...other poetical writers of miscellanies; nor can it be well otherwise, since no man can be a true poet who writes for diversion only. These authors should... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...(which is the body,) will probably be wanting: only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse...other poetical writers of miscellanies : nor can it be well otherwise, tince no man can be a true poet uho varitet for diversion only. These authors should... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 392 pages
...(which is the body,) will probably be wanting ; only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse,...diversion only. These authors should be considered as versifiers and witty men, rather than as poets ; and under this head will only fall the thoughts, the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 396 pages
...(which is the body,) will probably be wanting ; only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse,...diversion only. These authors should be considered as versifiers and witty men, rather than as poets ; and under this head will only fall the thoughts, the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 pages
...the body,) will probably be wanting ; only pretty conceptions,finemetaphors,glitteringexpressions, and something of a neat cast of verse, (which are...diversion only. These authors should be considered as versifiers and witty men, rather than as poets ; and .under this head will only fall the thoughts,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 478 pages
...(which is the body), will probably be wanting; only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse...diversion only. These authors should be considered as versifiers and witty men rather than as p'tcts ; and under this head will only fall the Thoughts. the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...(which is the body), will probably be wanting ; only^jiettv_conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering -expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse...diversion only. These authors should be considered as versifiers and witty men rather than as poets; and under this head will only fall the Thoughts, the... | |
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All that regards design, form, fable, which is the soul of poetry ; all that concerns exactness, or consent of parts, which is the body, will probably be wanting. Only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat... 
